Exemption from ban on trucks sought

The Mandaue City Council has referred to its committee on laws for study the proposal of the city’s Housing and Urban Development Office (HUDO) to exempt from an existing ban on trucks those that supply filling materials to relocation sites in Barangays G

At present, trucks are banned from entering the city in certain hours of the day but Mayor Luigi Quisumbing wants works on the relocation site completed soon so that fire survivors who are housed at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) can move to Guizo and Mantuyong before the year ends.

Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna said it is best for the committee on laws to study HUDO’s proposal before the council approves the ban exemption.

Once the exemption is granted, the mayor can sign a formal agreement with the Cebu Contractors Association Incorporated (CCAI), Department of Public Works and Highways 6th Engineering District, Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM), Housing and Urban Development Office (HUDO), City Engineers Office (CEO), and Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO).

Under

the agreement, PENRO will waive inspection of the filling materials intended for the sites in Guizo and Mantuyong.

TEAM, for its part, will be responsible for monitoring and checking the permits of trucks that will enter Guizo and Mantuyong.

RELOCATION

The city plans to give 28 square meters of land to each of the families left homeless by the fire. Based on the initial assessment by HUDO, only 369 families can be given 28 square meters of land each.

Aside from developing the GuizoMantuyong area, the city government is also looking for possible relocation sites that have either been developed but not yet reblocked or, at the very least, a lot that requires only minimal development.

The city eyes at purchasing properties in Lapu-Lapu or Consolacion in order to accommodate the more than 800 families that can’t be accommodated in the 9.2-hectare land in Mandaue.

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